The Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement monitors the cancer burden in the catchment area. 

Based on the data, the community outreach and engagement team has initiated the following outreach campaigns: 

• Sun Safety campaign: Vermont has one of the highest melanoma rates in the country. This campaign brings cancer prevention materials, sun safety education, and annual skin checks to rural communities.
• Lung Screening campaign: With higher than national rates of tobacco use in our catchment area, the community outreach team has been working with health systems and cancer coalitions across the catchment area to educate communities and primary care providers about lung screening guidelines and increase rates of early detection.
• Breast Cancer campaign: 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer. The UVM Cancer Center has a robust breast cancer research portfolio and community partners working to increase mammography screening for populations with lower-than-average screening rates and support breast cancer survivors in our catchment area. 

Learn more about cancer in our community.

The Community Outreach and Engagement team is responsible for broadly sharing information about cancer screening and cancer prevention as well as providing resources to support patients, caregivers and community members at large. 

Learn more about our public health campaigns.

The annual Women's Health and Cancer Conference is a free, educational event aimed at empowering and supporting individuals and communities with knowledge about cancer prevention, detection, treatment and survivorship.

Learn more about the Women's Health and Cancer Conference.

Presented with support by Mascoma Bank and in partnership with UVM Athletics, Rally Against Cancer games are an annual campaign to raise awareness for cancer research and honor patients with cancer, their caregivers, and providers at the UVM Cancer Center. 

Learn more about our Rally Against Cancer games.

The UVM Cancer Center's Community Outreach and Education van delivers cancer education and screening information, facilitates cancer research, and inspires the next generation of cancer doctors and scientists across the cancer center’s catchment area, including all of Vermont and six counties in northern New York.

Contact us if you would like to collaborate on a program: coe@med.uvm.edu. 

Learn more about the BioMobile Discovery Lab

The Community Outreach and Engagement team hosts and attends a variety of community, educational, and health fair events across Vermont and northern New York. 

Check out our calendar of events.